re: Study: Same-Sex Parenting Harms Children

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Sir we are in full agreement that people who don't know what they are talking about should shut the frick up LOL

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Well then I would have to leave this message board.

But this is why this type of study that shouldn't be published in its current capacity. It's like the Wakefield Autism study, or the Hurricane masculinity/feminity name study, poor science and, more importantly, improper conclusions, do more harm than good. But too often those studies are headline grabbing, so journals make poor decisions.

In fact, I've seen it, to a lesser degree, from reviews of a journal that was rejected. I got the sense that if we overstated our conclusions about interesting finding, he would have viewed it more favorably. And when we refused to do so, because we didn't have the data to do so, he (could have been a she) was unreasonably defensive.

I've been troubled by this trend to expect science to find and/or explain everything in one study, or at least act like it does. So when a study does that, like this one, when it shouldn't, then it does a disservice to science itself.